On 3/3/2005 at 4:49 PM sam7cooke wrote:

> I figured it out. The RPM compat-libstdc++- provides libstdc++so.5 for
> FC3. I installed it from the FC3 cd and was able to install firebird
> with no problems.
>

Matt,

Sorry, I missed your post a few days ago. I recently went through this same path and got where you are now, but had further problems with the IBPP library warning me about the use of the older libstdc++so.5 alongside of libstdc++so.6.

In the end, I uninstalled the rpm version of Firebird, downloaded the Firebird sources, recompiled Firebird for Fedora Core 3, and installed that. Everything seems to be working great at this point, using libstdc++so.6.

Compiling and installing Firebird is pretty easy, I did the following:
cd /usr/local/src
tar xvjf firebird-1.5.2.4731.tar.bz2
cd firebird-1.5.2.4731
autoconf
./configure
cd src
make
make install

I double-checked to be sure Firebird was set up to auto-run via chkconfig, but I believe everything was correct: I don't recall having to do anything there.

Start to finish took about an hour or so (the server is an old, slow machine).

You may need to also create links (in /usr/bin or wherever) to the various Firebird utilities (isql, gsec, gbak, etc.), depending upon your needs.

HTH,

Dan.